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The canton of Zurich will start the Covid vaccination on January 4. The general population has to be patient until April.
- The canton of Zurich will start its corona vaccinations on January 4, at the travel medicine center, not far from Zurich’s main station.
- The first batch of vaccination doses is for people 75 years of age and older, with or without previous illnesses. Online registration begins at the end of December.
- In the course of January, vaccinations will begin in homes for the elderly and the elderly, as well as among health workers in hospitals.
- The general population will have to be patient until April.
Because the vaccine is only available to a limited extent at first, Zurich people over the age of 75 are the first to participate. You will be vaccinated from January 4 at the Hirschengraben Institute for Travel Medicine in the city of Zurich.
A large tent has already been set up there. It is important that there are no queues, as was the case with swine flu, when people flocked to Central, officials in the canton said on Monday.
With a treatment time of 27 minutes per person, almost 600 people can be vaccinated per day at the Institute of Travel Medicine. In a first step, 16,000 doses of vaccines are available. Therefore, the general population will have to wait a bit longer, probably until April.
The Health Directorate defines the order
The first thing to do is vaccinate people over the age of 75 and residents with serious pre-existing diseases. This is followed by those over 65, depending on availability. On January 11, the first vaccinations will take place in a nursing home and for the elderly. The health department chose the Fuhr residential center in Wädenswil for the test.
The elderly and high-risk patients are followed by healthcare workers and residents of institutions such as homes for the disabled and prisons, because the virus can spread very quickly there, such as in nursing homes and nursing homes. In a first step, the goal is to vaccinate vulnerable groups, which will relieve hospitals.
Online registration from the end of December
As of December 30, the population can register for the first of two vaccination dates on a website. Older people without the Internet have to seek help for better or for worse.
After the first vaccination center at the Institute for Traveler’s Medicine, in the next stage a center is planned in the city of Zurich and then three more vaccination centers in the canton. The logistics of this huge campaign are extremely complex. For example, the refrigerators for vaccination doses are not ready yet. The Biontech / Pfizer vaccine has not yet arrived in Zurich either.
Rickli also wants to get vaccinated
If all goes according to plan, some 20,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of January. Now it’s not primarily about vaccinating the population, said Health Director Natalie Rickli (SVP). “But there will be enough vaccines for everyone.”
She also wants to get vaccinated. But since she is only 44 years old, she prioritizes those who need the vaccine more than she does.
